full power toolbox barMenu

[Shawn Anderson]

I'm trying to make a bar menu.
PBCC 5.01

This compiles and acts like it's working (cursor moves) but it shows no menu items. When I hit enter it returns the correct menu item number.
It also throws some garbage characters up ("x" and upside-down "?").

what am I doing wrong?

Function showBar() As Long
    Dim bChoices(1:6) As String
    Dim bKeys(1:6) As Byte
    Dim bHelp(1:6) As String
    Dim bDisabled(1:6) As Byte
    Local row As Byte
    Local helpRow As Byte
    Local initial As Byte
    Local barAttr As Byte
    Local menuAttr As Byte
    Local keyAttr As Byte
    Local disAttr As Byte
    Local helpAttr As Byte       
    Local choice As Integer    
    
    bChoices(1)="ENTER" 
    bChoices(2)="VIEW"
    bChoices(3)="SETUP"
    bChoices(4)="DELETE"
    bChoices(5)="CONSIGNEES"
    bChoices(6)="EXIT" 
    
'    bDisabled(1)=0 
'    bDisabled(2)=0
'    bDisabled(3)=0
'    bDisabled(4)=0
'    bDisabled(5)=0
'    bDisabled(6)=0
    
    bHelp(1)=""
    bHelp(2)=""
    bHelp(3)=""
    bHelp(4)=""
    bHelp(5)=""
    bHelp(6)=""
    
    bKeys(1)=1 
    bKeys(2)=1
    bKeys(3)=1
    bKeys(4)=1
    bKeys(5)=1 
    bKeys(6)=2
    
    row=2
    helpRow=25
    initial=1
    barAttr=&h71
    menuAttr=&h1f
    keyAttr=&h1e
    disAttr=&h10  
    helpAttr=&h07
    
    choice=BarMenu(bChoices(),bKeys(),bHelp(),bDisabled(),row,helpRow,_
           initial,barAttr,menuAttr,keyAttr,DisAttr,helpAttr)  
 
    Function= choice

End Function

[Michael Mattias]

>what am I doing wrong?

Not showing us the BarMenu() function? Any display must be happening - or not happening - there.

[Shawn Anderson]

I was afraid someone would ask that.
I don't think I can because Full Power Toolbox is a collection of functions, as opposed to a DLL or something. I think they wouldn't like their code posted.

I was looking at their website last night and it says that PBCC 5 is in "testing" so I think that's the problem. I can already see that they are using some new PB commands as variables. It's a wonder that it's compiling.

[Michael Mattias]

Call me a naif, but wouldn't the best bet to solve your problem be "Full Power Toolbox Customer Support?"

[Shawn Anderson]

Dear naif,
Tried that... I'm waiting for a response.
Honestly the PB forum is generally faster. Usually somebody has ran into the problem before me.

Since it's "just" code, I'm stepping through it now.

[Shawn Anderson]

follow up:
Infoms contacted me and are working on a patch.

[Shawn Anderson]

follow up:
Informs has supplied me with a patch for PBCC 5.x (thanks Alan).

My other problem was the well-documented console window size issue, which I completely missed.

I'm all fixed.